Investing Quote by James Mackintosh

All wealth is the product of labor.

— John Locke

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law…

— Leland Stanford

The wealth of a country is its working people.

— Theodor Herzl

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a…

— Mao Zedong

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

“Wealth is not distributed by society: it is produced and traded by the people who create it. To distribute it, society would first have…

— Don Watkins

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.

— Eric Beinhocker

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

— Abraham Lincoln

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

— Henry Hazlitt